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69th Year - No, 1Q6 f.W Mnmiml h Sunday. Jm,. 2X 1977 4 Sections - 48 Page - 35 Cents
St017 DW$A
Isadore and Daisy Broadus, shown outside their home in a
photograph taken in September, always extended a welcome
By Loretto Kenny Winiarski
Missourian staff writer
ROCHEPORT The exact cause of
Friday night's fire which killed a well
known Rocheport couple may never be
pinpointed, Boone County Fire Sutdct.
Chief Bill Westhoff said Saturday.
Isadore Broadus, 76, and his wife of
more than 0 years, Daisy, 82, died in
the fire
Westhoff theorized that the
Broaduses tried to add oil to one of the
two oil stoves that heated the house and
the oil ignited the blaze Westhoff said
the cardboard and paper insulation in
the walls fed the flames
"We think this was a flash-typ-e Ere,"
Westhoff said "These people could
have escaped if the fire had started
slowly It was a small, one-roo- m house
All they bad to do was walk out the
door"
He said a passing motorist reported
the fire and firemen responded within
five minutes "But even if the fire
trucks had been parked across the
street, I don't think it would have made
any difference with this type of fire," he
said
to visitors. Many strangers stopped to pass time with the
Broaduses until a Friday night flash fire killed both of them.
Cause of deadly fire not known
A neighbor, Audrey Roberts, said she
was watching television about 6 45 p m
Friday when she heard a loud noise
outside "It sounded like two cars had
run together I looked outside to see if
there had been a car accident and saw
the Broadus house onfire. By Out tune
it was completely engulfed in flames,"
she said.
She said the firemen "got there right
away, but I knew it was too late "
Mrs Roberts said the Broaduses
were "wonderful neighbors.
"I've known Isadore and Daisy ever
since I moved here 26 years ago."
She said Mrs Broadus had cancer
surgery several years ago and seemed
to "go downhill ever since " Mrs
Roberts said Mrs Broadus "had
trouble getting around in the last tew
years" and her husband, Isadore. had
leg taoubte and could hardly walk.
"I used to drive him downtown and
wait for hnn and take him home," Mrs.
Roberts said. "I wanted to make sure
he made it okay"
She said the Broadus house used to
have three rooms "But about 10 years
(See CASH, page 9A)
In town v
today
Exhibits
New: Michael's, 702 Conley
Ave., 3 to 9 pjn., oil paintings and
pastels by Sarah Land and Irish
Jones.
Monday
7:30 p.m. Columbia Water and
Light Advisory Board meeting,
water and light department
conference room, County-Cit- y
Building.
Exhibits
New: Columbia College Art
Center Gallery, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
black and white drawings, prints
and photographs by Roger
Bowman and Julianne Gehring.
See Vibrations magazine for
continuing exhibit schedules.
Movie listings on pages 10 and
11A
Indian 'untouchable9 says
New law improves life
By William Borders
N.Y. Times Service
MAU, India Shivh Lai, a 55-year--
old
untouchable farmer who lives in a
one-roo- m mud house here, has no
money, no prospects and very little
land, but he remembers when things
were worse.
"Our people have some rights now,
and we can assert them," he said as he
sat in the warm winter sunshine on the
dusty track that is the only street in this
village 250 miles (400 kilometers)
southeast of New Delhi. "They've
begun letting our children go to school,
and the upper-cast- e Hindus don't beat
us up the way they did when I was a
boy."
Lai and his neighbors, all of them
untouchables, still cannot drink water
from any well except their own, or at
least, they explained, it would not occur
to them to try And although they could
probably pay a visit unnoticed to the
high-cast- e Hindu temple in the larger
village of Mohanlanganj, one-ha- lf mile
(0 8 kilometer) away, no one here could
remember when any of them had ever
done so
For Lai, his neighbors and India's 85
million other untouchables.
Insight
traditionally at the very bottom social
stratum in India, change is coming, but
the change is as slow and clumsy as the
lumbering bullocks that plow their
hard, dry patches of wheat and
mustard seed.
"Untouchability has been thtfbane of
our civilization for several centuries,"
said Om Mehta, minister of state for
home affairs "Although our
constitution contains provisions
against untouchability, we continue to
live with it"
Mehta was speaking in NewDelhi two
months ago on the promulgation of a
new federal cavil rights law aimed, like
other laws before it, at eradicating one
of the world's most ancient and firmly
entrenched patterns of discrimination
Hindus have traditionally regarded
untouchables as almost a breed apart,
destined by hirth to be inferior in status
and occupation and polluting anyone
else who comes into contactwith them.
The new law, the toughest yet,
provides minimum prison sentences for
discriminating against untouchables,
and it even outlaws direct or indirect
preaching of the practice But Mehta
conceded "Mere enactment of law will
(See 'UNTOUCHABLES,' page 9A)
Bill Weshoff, Route 7, picks up a bag of bird feed
from Jim Rathert, left, a wildlife research tech-nician
at the Missouri Department of Conser-vation.
The department handed out free bags of
feed Friday and Saturday to persona interested
in helping birds survive the severe cold of the
last few weeks. (Missourian photo by Anne
Martin)
Bitter cold dangerous
for Missouri wildlife
By Larry Katzenstein
Misscarian staff writer
The recent bitter cold may be an
inconvenience to people, but to wildlife
such as birds and fish it could prove
disastrous.
Almost 100 species of birds spend
their winters in Missouri. About 50 of
these speaes, including quad and song-birds
such as cardinals, sparrows, and
Dark-eye-d Juncos, depend on seeds on
the ground for nourishment These
birds are at a particular disadvantage
in the snow-covere- d terrain.
Bobwhite quail are a prime example
of a year-roun- d resident in distress,
says Bill Crawford, superintendent of
wildlife research for the Missouri
Department of Conservation.
"We know what the weight of quail
should be at this time of year, and birds
we've brought into the lab in the past
week weighed 25 to SO per cent less than
normal," he says. Crawford adds that
dead quail and other dead birds have
been reported, and mat from their
appearance starvation is suspected as
the cause of death.
People who want to help feed quail
and other birds can obtain bags of feed
from the Department of Conservation,
which last week appropriated funds for
then purchase. These 10-pou- nd (4.5-ktlogra- m)
bags, primarily intended for
rural use, are free to the public and can
be picked up at the department's offices
at 1110 College Ave.
Crawford describes winter as a harsh
season which always exacts its share of
animal mortality But, he says, the
abnormal stresses that have recently
prevailed deep snow, extreme
temperatures and wind-chi- ll factors as
low as --30 to --40 degrees F (-- 34 to 40 C)
nave combined to make this winter
"a terrible period" for birds.
In order to be effective, efforts to
provide food and cover for birds must
begin months before winter's onset,
Crawford says. As an example of
advance preparatioa, Crawford points
to the activities of his department
which every spring plants food plots of
cane, corn and sorghum gram on public
and private lands
Crawford encourages people to put up
backyard feeders, but beheves they will
be of limited value this late.
"For the most part you will be
catering to animals already in
distressed condition due to exposure
and lack of food, so your chances of
helping them at mis point are pretty
remote," he says
Fish living in ponds, such as the farm
ponds found throughout Missouri, also
are vulnerable to (he effects of the cold.
If the pond is rich in organic matter
such as dead plants and weeds,
bacterial decay of this material will
deplete some of the oxygen. When mis
condition is coupled with a hard freeze
and heavy snow cover, the situation
worsens.
Arthur Witt Jr., a professor at the
(See OXYGEN, page IA)
Still more snow
expected to hit
Columbia today
Columbia's brief flirtation with
warmer and drier weather was
expected to end abruptly today as
another winter storm system moved
into the area
A spokesman for the National
Weather Service at Columbia Regional
Airport predicted late Saturday night
mat one to four inches (2 5 to 10 centi-meters)
of snow would fall by late this
afternoon
Temperatures in the low 30s F ( about
--1 to 2 C) were forecast for today
The forecast promised an end to the
brief period of wanner weather
experienced late last week Warming
temperatures melted some of the snow
and ice that had accumulated since
temperatures plummeted in late
December
A cold low-pressu- re system, moving
east from the Texas Panhandle, and
another system of cold, dry air, also
moving east, are responsible for the
dun forecast
The weather system will cover the
Southwest and extend into the Great
Lakes, the weather service spokesman
said.
The large high-pressu- re system that
brought Columbia a brief interlude of
almost seasonable temperatures has
moved out of the area to the northeast
Warmer weather and an absence of
precipitation, however, are not far
away The weather service spokesman
predicted partly cloudy skies and near
normal temperatures for Monday
through Wednesday
Highs for that period are expected to
be from 35 to 45 F (2 to 7 C) and lows
will be in the teens to low 20s F (- -7 to --4
C)
Elsewhere, winter loosened its grip
on most hard-h- it states Saturday, but
the effects of the past week's record-shatterin- g
cold mounted in higher
prices, cooler homes, shorter public
workers' hours and in apprehension
over remaining cold months
The unprecedented demands on
natural gas supplies, at the heart of the
problem particularly in the South, led
to a presidential call for Americans to
lower home temperatures to 65 F (18
C), 60 F (16 C) at night, and to plans for
increasing output and to switch
supplies to worst affected areas
Outspoken leader 1
honored by council 1
MtaaarlaattaH wetter
IByJodtthGufo Robert L. Howard, a pale, tcjn
man in bis 503, tamed to me
members of the Lions Club one day
in 1949 and announced that
Columbia's aty government was in
the hands of a "tight political
machine" that would deliberately
mislead the people to prevent
adoption of the new city charter
As chairman of the 13-memb- er
City Charter Commission, Howard
had a personal interest in seeing the
charter approved by aty voters But
the opposition was led by then-May-or
MP Blackmore, the City
Council and a strong coalition of
bankers and businessmen
"People knew what he was saying
was true It was just the first time
someone had stepped up and said
it," recalls John Cnghton, a retired
Stephens College history instructor
"It was a very courageous thing to
doat the tune"
In April of that year, voters
adopted Howard's aty charter by a
700-vo- te margin And Monday night
the City Council voted unanimously
to rename the old Municipal
Building in honor of Robert L.
Howard.
By profession, Howard was a Uni-versity
law professor for 36 years
and a specialist in labor law until his
death in 1973. But his avocation was
aty government
Cnghton remembers Howard as
an outspoken advocate of the
council-manag- er government out-lined
by the charter. "He didn't just
BBjwwrisB potto
Robert L. Howard
Former civic leader
sit on his hands He was one of the
best public relations men the
charter group had."
Full-pag- e ads m the local news-papers
denounced the charter as
"dictatorial," "reactionary" and
"fascist " Howard countered,
calling the charges "claptrap" and
"deliberate misrepresentation "
"People opposed to the charter
form of government picked on Bob
Howard because he was chairman,"
recalls Roy Sappington, a member
of the original commission "But
(See PUGH, page 12A)

gp qw rwwqyty'w wwfyw to hold Big 8 lead
69th Year - No, 1Q6 f.W Mnmiml h Sunday. Jm,. 2X 1977 4 Sections - 48 Page - 35 Cents
St017 DW$A
Isadore and Daisy Broadus, shown outside their home in a
photograph taken in September, always extended a welcome
By Loretto Kenny Winiarski
Missourian staff writer
ROCHEPORT The exact cause of
Friday night's fire which killed a well
known Rocheport couple may never be
pinpointed, Boone County Fire Sutdct.
Chief Bill Westhoff said Saturday.
Isadore Broadus, 76, and his wife of
more than 0 years, Daisy, 82, died in
the fire
Westhoff theorized that the
Broaduses tried to add oil to one of the
two oil stoves that heated the house and
the oil ignited the blaze Westhoff said
the cardboard and paper insulation in
the walls fed the flames
"We think this was a flash-typ-e Ere,"
Westhoff said "These people could
have escaped if the fire had started
slowly It was a small, one-roo- m house
All they bad to do was walk out the
door"
He said a passing motorist reported
the fire and firemen responded within
five minutes "But even if the fire
trucks had been parked across the
street, I don't think it would have made
any difference with this type of fire," he
said
to visitors. Many strangers stopped to pass time with the
Broaduses until a Friday night flash fire killed both of them.
Cause of deadly fire not known
A neighbor, Audrey Roberts, said she
was watching television about 6 45 p m
Friday when she heard a loud noise
outside "It sounded like two cars had
run together I looked outside to see if
there had been a car accident and saw
the Broadus house onfire. By Out tune
it was completely engulfed in flames,"
she said.
She said the firemen "got there right
away, but I knew it was too late "
Mrs Roberts said the Broaduses
were "wonderful neighbors.
"I've known Isadore and Daisy ever
since I moved here 26 years ago."
She said Mrs Broadus had cancer
surgery several years ago and seemed
to "go downhill ever since " Mrs
Roberts said Mrs Broadus "had
trouble getting around in the last tew
years" and her husband, Isadore. had
leg taoubte and could hardly walk.
"I used to drive him downtown and
wait for hnn and take him home," Mrs.
Roberts said. "I wanted to make sure
he made it okay"
She said the Broadus house used to
have three rooms "But about 10 years
(See CASH, page 9A)
In town v
today
Exhibits
New: Michael's, 702 Conley
Ave., 3 to 9 pjn., oil paintings and
pastels by Sarah Land and Irish
Jones.
Monday
7:30 p.m. Columbia Water and
Light Advisory Board meeting,
water and light department
conference room, County-Cit- y
Building.
Exhibits
New: Columbia College Art
Center Gallery, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
black and white drawings, prints
and photographs by Roger
Bowman and Julianne Gehring.
See Vibrations magazine for
continuing exhibit schedules.
Movie listings on pages 10 and
11A
Indian 'untouchable9 says
New law improves life
By William Borders
N.Y. Times Service
MAU, India Shivh Lai, a 55-year--
old
untouchable farmer who lives in a
one-roo- m mud house here, has no
money, no prospects and very little
land, but he remembers when things
were worse.
"Our people have some rights now,
and we can assert them," he said as he
sat in the warm winter sunshine on the
dusty track that is the only street in this
village 250 miles (400 kilometers)
southeast of New Delhi. "They've
begun letting our children go to school,
and the upper-cast- e Hindus don't beat
us up the way they did when I was a
boy."
Lai and his neighbors, all of them
untouchables, still cannot drink water
from any well except their own, or at
least, they explained, it would not occur
to them to try And although they could
probably pay a visit unnoticed to the
high-cast- e Hindu temple in the larger
village of Mohanlanganj, one-ha- lf mile
(0 8 kilometer) away, no one here could
remember when any of them had ever
done so
For Lai, his neighbors and India's 85
million other untouchables.
Insight
traditionally at the very bottom social
stratum in India, change is coming, but
the change is as slow and clumsy as the
lumbering bullocks that plow their
hard, dry patches of wheat and
mustard seed.
"Untouchability has been thtfbane of
our civilization for several centuries,"
said Om Mehta, minister of state for
home affairs "Although our
constitution contains provisions
against untouchability, we continue to
live with it"
Mehta was speaking in NewDelhi two
months ago on the promulgation of a
new federal cavil rights law aimed, like
other laws before it, at eradicating one
of the world's most ancient and firmly
entrenched patterns of discrimination
Hindus have traditionally regarded
untouchables as almost a breed apart,
destined by hirth to be inferior in status
and occupation and polluting anyone
else who comes into contactwith them.
The new law, the toughest yet,
provides minimum prison sentences for
discriminating against untouchables,
and it even outlaws direct or indirect
preaching of the practice But Mehta
conceded "Mere enactment of law will
(See 'UNTOUCHABLES,' page 9A)
Bill Weshoff, Route 7, picks up a bag of bird feed
from Jim Rathert, left, a wildlife research tech-nician
at the Missouri Department of Conser-vation.
The department handed out free bags of
feed Friday and Saturday to persona interested
in helping birds survive the severe cold of the
last few weeks. (Missourian photo by Anne
Martin)
Bitter cold dangerous
for Missouri wildlife
By Larry Katzenstein
Misscarian staff writer
The recent bitter cold may be an
inconvenience to people, but to wildlife
such as birds and fish it could prove
disastrous.
Almost 100 species of birds spend
their winters in Missouri. About 50 of
these speaes, including quad and song-birds
such as cardinals, sparrows, and
Dark-eye-d Juncos, depend on seeds on
the ground for nourishment These
birds are at a particular disadvantage
in the snow-covere- d terrain.
Bobwhite quail are a prime example
of a year-roun- d resident in distress,
says Bill Crawford, superintendent of
wildlife research for the Missouri
Department of Conservation.
"We know what the weight of quail
should be at this time of year, and birds
we've brought into the lab in the past
week weighed 25 to SO per cent less than
normal," he says. Crawford adds that
dead quail and other dead birds have
been reported, and mat from their
appearance starvation is suspected as
the cause of death.
People who want to help feed quail
and other birds can obtain bags of feed
from the Department of Conservation,
which last week appropriated funds for
then purchase. These 10-pou- nd (4.5-ktlogra- m)
bags, primarily intended for
rural use, are free to the public and can
be picked up at the department's offices
at 1110 College Ave.
Crawford describes winter as a harsh
season which always exacts its share of
animal mortality But, he says, the
abnormal stresses that have recently
prevailed deep snow, extreme
temperatures and wind-chi- ll factors as
low as --30 to --40 degrees F (-- 34 to 40 C)
nave combined to make this winter
"a terrible period" for birds.
In order to be effective, efforts to
provide food and cover for birds must
begin months before winter's onset,
Crawford says. As an example of
advance preparatioa, Crawford points
to the activities of his department
which every spring plants food plots of
cane, corn and sorghum gram on public
and private lands
Crawford encourages people to put up
backyard feeders, but beheves they will
be of limited value this late.
"For the most part you will be
catering to animals already in
distressed condition due to exposure
and lack of food, so your chances of
helping them at mis point are pretty
remote," he says
Fish living in ponds, such as the farm
ponds found throughout Missouri, also
are vulnerable to (he effects of the cold.
If the pond is rich in organic matter
such as dead plants and weeds,
bacterial decay of this material will
deplete some of the oxygen. When mis
condition is coupled with a hard freeze
and heavy snow cover, the situation
worsens.
Arthur Witt Jr., a professor at the
(See OXYGEN, page IA)
Still more snow
expected to hit
Columbia today
Columbia's brief flirtation with
warmer and drier weather was
expected to end abruptly today as
another winter storm system moved
into the area
A spokesman for the National
Weather Service at Columbia Regional
Airport predicted late Saturday night
mat one to four inches (2 5 to 10 centi-meters)
of snow would fall by late this
afternoon
Temperatures in the low 30s F ( about
--1 to 2 C) were forecast for today
The forecast promised an end to the
brief period of wanner weather
experienced late last week Warming
temperatures melted some of the snow
and ice that had accumulated since
temperatures plummeted in late
December
A cold low-pressu- re system, moving
east from the Texas Panhandle, and
another system of cold, dry air, also
moving east, are responsible for the
dun forecast
The weather system will cover the
Southwest and extend into the Great
Lakes, the weather service spokesman
said.
The large high-pressu- re system that
brought Columbia a brief interlude of
almost seasonable temperatures has
moved out of the area to the northeast
Warmer weather and an absence of
precipitation, however, are not far
away The weather service spokesman
predicted partly cloudy skies and near
normal temperatures for Monday
through Wednesday
Highs for that period are expected to
be from 35 to 45 F (2 to 7 C) and lows
will be in the teens to low 20s F (- -7 to --4
C)
Elsewhere, winter loosened its grip
on most hard-h- it states Saturday, but
the effects of the past week's record-shatterin- g
cold mounted in higher
prices, cooler homes, shorter public
workers' hours and in apprehension
over remaining cold months
The unprecedented demands on
natural gas supplies, at the heart of the
problem particularly in the South, led
to a presidential call for Americans to
lower home temperatures to 65 F (18
C), 60 F (16 C) at night, and to plans for
increasing output and to switch
supplies to worst affected areas
Outspoken leader 1
honored by council 1
MtaaarlaattaH wetter
IByJodtthGufo Robert L. Howard, a pale, tcjn
man in bis 503, tamed to me
members of the Lions Club one day
in 1949 and announced that
Columbia's aty government was in
the hands of a "tight political
machine" that would deliberately
mislead the people to prevent
adoption of the new city charter
As chairman of the 13-memb- er
City Charter Commission, Howard
had a personal interest in seeing the
charter approved by aty voters But
the opposition was led by then-May-or
MP Blackmore, the City
Council and a strong coalition of
bankers and businessmen
"People knew what he was saying
was true It was just the first time
someone had stepped up and said
it," recalls John Cnghton, a retired
Stephens College history instructor
"It was a very courageous thing to
doat the tune"
In April of that year, voters
adopted Howard's aty charter by a
700-vo- te margin And Monday night
the City Council voted unanimously
to rename the old Municipal
Building in honor of Robert L.
Howard.
By profession, Howard was a Uni-versity
law professor for 36 years
and a specialist in labor law until his
death in 1973. But his avocation was
aty government
Cnghton remembers Howard as
an outspoken advocate of the
council-manag- er government out-lined
by the charter. "He didn't just
BBjwwrisB potto
Robert L. Howard
Former civic leader
sit on his hands He was one of the
best public relations men the
charter group had."
Full-pag- e ads m the local news-papers
denounced the charter as
"dictatorial," "reactionary" and
"fascist " Howard countered,
calling the charges "claptrap" and
"deliberate misrepresentation "
"People opposed to the charter
form of government picked on Bob
Howard because he was chairman,"
recalls Roy Sappington, a member
of the original commission "But
(See PUGH, page 12A)